October 2011 Registration Open for LVS Online Classes

September 28th, 2011 lvs

NEW Courses for the October/November 2011 session: » Dreamweaver CS5 – Level I » Drupal Basics II [new for Drupal 7] » Drupal Basics III [previously Drupal Basics II, a Photo Site] Classrooms open October 17, 2011 Registration closes October 19, 2011 First lesson posts October 20, 2011

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special for Valentines Day AND….if you refer new students to LVS, receive $5 for EACH referral!

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDRAW, Corel Painter, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, and Corel PhotoImpact! Registered LVS students enter CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As an additional benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Auto FX, Andromeda, AV Bros, Harry Heim – The PlugIn Site, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

Registered LVS students are also eligible to purchase some of their favorite software and hardware at a student discount through our Academic Reseller programs.

New Course Highlights

*Dreamweaver CS5 – Level I*

The world is heading online and many businesses want and needs an online presence. The first thing that means is a setting up a web site. Dreamweaver CS 5 help you get and maintain a web site. This is an introductory class that gives you the basic tools to use the Dreamweaver program. Using its WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) method of web design, we will talk about topics like CSS and HTML, SPRY Assets and basic web site setup. We’ll touch on image editing within Dreamweaver and making image rollovers.

Need to update your print skills, make a website for your local church group, or an organization? Or maybe you would like to make a family picture album site. Dreamweaver CS 5 can help. Want to get a job working for Amazon, Google, or You Tube? Well you need more then we can do in 5 weeks but this is where you can start building web sites then move onwards and upwards! Dreamweaver CS5 is Web Standards compliant and produces clean code to a number of standards.

Not sure exactly what that means? If you take the class you will know plus, we cover other topics like FTP, Beginners HTML, Beginners CSS, Web Templates and more. You’ll learn by reading then doing.
Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Drupal Basics II [new for Drupal 7] *

Drupal offers two important tools that can be used to personalize your site. Custom Content types allow you to add custom fields to existing content types and create your own content types. Views can be used to generate reports, create summaries, and other content. With the combination of these two tools, amazing things can be done on your site. The possibilities are endless. In this class we will explore Custom content types, View, and other modules that can be used to personalize your site. We will learn about the Administration tools that are available in Drupal and how to use them.

Hundreds of modules are available for use with Drupal. You can create events calendars, a contact form, product catalogs, polls or surveys, guestbook, a forum, or newsletter signup. The possibilities are endless. Basically, there are no limits with Drupal. You really can make any type of website you want. No programming skills are required! Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Drupal Basics III [previously Drupal Basics II, a Photo Site]*

This class will teach you the basics of this very important Drupal module: Panels. With Panels you can create customized layouts for your pages and views, even your home page. We will also be doing more with custom content types and Views. In this course we will create a photo album for our site. This should be a really fun way to learn how to use some very important contributed modules that have lots of different uses.

These lessons will take you step by step through the development of your photo site. You should have previous experience with Drupal by taking the first two Drupal Basics class where we built a site/blog or by having similar experience with creating content, links, menus, blocks, taxonomy, setting up users, user roles, permissions, comments, selecting themes, using views, creating custom content types, and enabling modules. If you have not done a majority of these things, you may want to consider taking the other Drupal Basics classes first, then taking this class.

You may have already done some online photo sharing on different sites on the web. The first photo sharing sites originated during the mid to late 1990s primarily from services providing online ordering of prints, but many more came into being during the early 2000s with the goal of providing permanent and centralized access to a user’s photos.

There are many more ways you can use this type of site. Have you thought about different uses for a photo site? Here are just a few ideas:

Use your imagination and you’ll find dozens of ideas for uses of this type of site. Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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September 2011 Registration Open for LVS Online Classes

August 9th, 2011 lvs

NEW Courses for September 2011 session: » Painter 12 Get Up To Speed » Painter 12 New Horizons Part 1 » Photoshop Elements 9: Make Your Photos POP! » Photoshop Elements 9: Pizzazz! » Drupal Basics [revised] Classrooms open August 29, 2011 Registration closes August 31, 2011 First lesson posts September 1, 2011

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special for Valentines Day AND….if you refer new students to LVS, receive $5 for EACH referral!

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDRAW, Corel Painter, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, and Corel PhotoImpact! Registered LVS students enter CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As an additional benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Auto FX, Andromeda, AV Bros, Harry Heim – The PlugIn Site, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

Registered LVS students are also eligible to purchase some of their favorite software and hardware at a student discount through our Academic Reseller programs.

New Course Highlights

*Corel Painter 12 Get up to Speed*

The newest version of Corel® Painter™ was released in May 2011. If you have recently upgraded, or are thinking of doing so, you are in for many exciting surprises. There have been so many changes made to Corel® Painter™ 12, it’s almost like a brand new program. The entire interface has changed to a more modern and streamlined look, and there are new and easier ways to customize the program and the workspaces. However, some of the changes may prove to be a bit confusing. The Palettes are now called Panels, the icons are different, menu items have been moved, and there are some new and strange looking items on the Toolbox too.

Come along with me while we explore this new program together, and discover many of the exciting feature additions provided in this version. This class has been designed especially for those who are currently using earlier versions of Painter, particularly Corel® Painter™ 11. Reading the lessons and following the various exercises will help you to transition to this latest version of Corel® Painter™. Each week you will create a new image in an exercise designed to help you more fully understand the new features in this most current version of the premier painting program. Visit our Graphics Program Campus to learn more.

*Corel Painter 12 New Horizons Part 1*

Corel® Painter™ 12 is a brand new, modernized, and very different version of Corel® Painter™. This latest version of the premier digital painting program has gotten an exciting face lift. In addition to the streamlined interface, there are new and better ways to customize the program to your individual taste, new features, new brushes (as usual) and much, much, more. This class is the first part of a beginner’s level course aimed at the Painter novice. The lessons will cover the most commonly used features of Corel® Painter™ 12, and students will learn how to use and customize many of this program’s unique tools and features.

Please note that this is a class especially written for Corel® Painter™ novices. If you have prior experience with Corel® Painter™ IX.5, Corel® Painter™ X, or Corel® Painter™ 11, please check the Course Catalog for my Corel® Painter™ 12 “Get Up to Speed” class. Visit our Graphics Program to learn more.

*Photoshop Elements 9: Make Your Photos POP!*

This intermediate class focuses on photo correction using Photoshop Elements 9. Learn to correct your photos for color and exposure problems! This class goes above and beyond the skills in the beginning series of classes, Photoshop Elements 9: The Journey Begins.

Learn to convert your photos to make dramatic black and white images and use levels, color curves, and much more! Learn many sharpening secrets.

If your goal is to improve your photos, Photoshop Elements 9: Make your Photos POP! class for you. Please note that this is NOT a photography class. It is an application class, designed to teach you how to use the tools in Photoshop Elements to improve your photos. Visit our Graphics Programs Campus to learn more.

*Photoshop Elements 9: Pizzazz!*

With so many third party filters available for Photoshop Elements, people tend to forget about the ones native to the software. Native filters are the ones you will find under the Filters menu. These filters can produce some dramatic effects whether used alone or combined with others, how to use these filters is the focus of this course.

One more problem is often these filters aren’t very intuitive, so even if you have noticed them, or even experimented with them, you may not know what the sliders and settings mean, or when you might want to use a particular effect.

Over five lessons we will cover quite a few of these filters to enhance photographs, create paintings and make your text stand off the page. I believe in learning by doing so we’ll be creating images as we go to learn more about these filters. Visit our Graphics Programs Campus to learn more.

*Drupal Basics* [Revised]

Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System written in PHP. With Drupal you can create a simple personal homepage, a company website, a blog, an ecommerce site, etc. Hundreds of modules are available for use with Drupal. You can create events calendars, a contact form, product catalogs, polls or surveys, guestbook, a forum, or newsletter signup. The possibilities are endless. Basically, there are no limits with Drupal, you really can make any type of website you want. No programming skills are required!

This class is for anyone that is interested in creating a personal, club, or group site/blog using Drupal. In this class we will plan and design our own web site/blog in Drupal. No knowledge of XHTML, CSS, or PHP is necessary. I will give you written and visual instructions that will take you step by step through the lessons. We will create content, add and manage users, select a theme, and other exciting things. The main intent for this class is to learn the basics of Drupal. There are many Drupal blogs and web sites on the web. When we finish you will have a completed blog/web site that you can continue using. We will be doing a site on whatever “G” rated subject that you choose or you can use the material provided to make a Garden Club site. In Drupal Basics II and III you can add more functionality to your site. We will use the same site for all Drupal Basics classes. Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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Drupal Basics II Online Class

September 29th, 2010 lvs

The Drupal Basics II online class will teach you the basics of these very important Drupal modules: the Content Construction Kit, Views, and Panels. The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to existing content types and create your own content types. Views can be used to generate reports, create summaries, and display collections of images and other content. With Panels you can create customized layouts for your pages and views, even your home page.

In this Drupal Basics II online class we will use these modules and a few others to create a photo site. This should be a really fun way to learn how to use some very important contributed modules that have lots of different uses.

These lessons will take you step by step through the development of your photo site. You should have previous experience with Drupal by taking the first Drupal Basics class where we built a blog or by having similar experience with creating content, links, menus, blocks, taxonomy, setting up users, user roles, permissions, comments, selecting themes, and enabling modules. If you have not done a majority of these things, you may want to consider taking the first Drupal Basics class first, then taking this class during the next session.

You may have already done some online photo sharing on different sites on the web. The first photo sharing sites originated during the mid to late 1990s primarily from services providing online ordering of prints, but many more came into being during the early 2000s with the goal of providing permanent and centralized access to a user’s photos.

Have you thought about different uses for a photo site? Here are just a few ideas:

• SCRAPBOOKING
• HOBBIES
• CLASS REUNIONS
• ARTS AND CRAFTS PORTFOLIO
• PHOTOGRAPHY
• GENEALOGY
• SCHOOL EVENTS
• WEDDINGS
• DISPLAYING DIGITAL ART AND GRAPHICS

Use your imagination and you’ll find dozens of ideas for uses of this type of site.

The Drupal classes are instructed by Yvonne Zaborac who has a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems with a major in Computer Science.

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Registration is Open for the October/November 2010 Session!

September 28th, 2010 lvs

NEW Courses for Oct/Nov 2010 session: » Build Your Web Site II – More XHTML & CSS – Part A » Drupal Basics II

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special AND….if you refer new students to LVS, receive $5 for EACH referral!

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDRAW, Corel Painter 11, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, and Corel PhotoImpact! Registered LVS students enter CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As an additional benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Auto FX, Andromeda, AV Bros, Harry Heim – The PlugIn Site, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

Registered LVS students are also eligible to purchase some of their favorite software and hardware at a student discount through our Academic Reseller programs.

Instructor-led classrooms open October 18, 2010. Head on over to LVS Online Registration to enroll today!

Registration for the Oct/Nov 2010 session ends October 20, 2010.

New Course Highlights

*Build Your Web Site II – More XHTML & CSS – Part A*

This online class builds on what you learned in Build Your Website I online class. In this first part of the intermediate class, you will learn a very important concept in web design: separating presentation from structure. This separation is important in the design process. It allows you to change your content without affecting the look of the site. You can add pages to your site without the need to style those pages. A big advantage comes when you want to change a design element on your site. Instead of changing it on every page, you only need to change it in one file and all your pages will be affected by that change. In this class, you will increase your CSS skills while working with lists, creating fancy forms, creating a tableless layout with a header and footer, designing delightful menus, and many other things. Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Drupal Basics II*

This online class will teach you the basics of these very important Drupal modules: the Content Construction Kit, Views, and Panels. The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to existing content types and create your own content types. Views can be used to generate reports, create summaries, and display collections of images and other content. With Panels you can create customized layouts for your pages and views, even your home page.

In this online course we will use these modules and a few others to create a photo site. This should be a really fun way to learn how to use some very important contributed modules that have lots of different uses.
Visit our Computers & Internet Campus to learn more.

Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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Drupal Themes Online Class

April 16th, 2010 lvs

Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System written in PHP. With Drupal you can create a simple personal homepage, a company website, a blog, an ecommerce site, etc. Themes play a key role in the Drupal system. The theme is the most significant piece of your Drupal installation. It is responsible for your visitor’s first impression of the site.

The Drupal Themes Online Class is designed to take you through the development of your own Drupal themes. You will be setting up your own design environment on your personal computers. We will examine the Drupal System and the files that make up a Drupal theme. In this online class you will learn how to make a subtheme of an original theme, use a starter theme and style it to suit your needs, and build your own theme from scratch.

When you finish this online course you will be able to use your design environment for future projects and have a few new themes that you have designed for use on your website.

The Drupal Themes Online Class is instructed by Yvonne Zaborac. Yvonne loves web design and creating graphics. She is currently working as an Application Programmer at a minor university in Illinois. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems with a major in Computer Science. She also has an Associate’s degree in Computer Networking, a Web Developer certificate, and a Web Administrator certificate.

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Registration for the May 2010 Session is Open!

April 14th, 2010 lvs

NEW Courses for May 2010 session: » Drupal Themes » Introduction to Computer Graphics: Starting with GIMP » Painter: PhotoPainting & Portraiture II » PSE 8 Beyond the Basics: High Seas

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special AND….if you refer new students to LVS, receive $5 for EACH referral!

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDRAW, Corel Painter 11, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, and Corel PhotoImpact X3! Registered LVS students enter CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As an additional benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Auto FX, Andromeda, AV Bros, Harry Heim – The PlugIn Site, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

Registered LVS students are also eligible to purchase some of their favorite software and hardware at a student discount through our Academic Reseller programs.

Instructor-led classes begin May 15, 2010. Head on over to LVS Online Registration to enroll today!

Registration for the May 2010 session ends May 12, 2010.

New Course Highlights

*Drupal Themes*

Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System written in PHP. With Drupal you can create a simple personal homepage, a company website, a blog, an ecommerce site, etc. Themes play a key role in the Drupal system. The theme is the most significant piece of your Drupal installation. It is responsible for your visitor’s first impression of the site.

This online course is designed to take you through the development of your own Drupal themes. You will be setting up your own design environment on your personal computers. We will examine the Drupal System and the files that make up a Drupal theme. You will learn how to make a subtheme of an original theme, use a starter theme and style it to suit your needs, and build your own theme from scratch.

When you finish this course you will be able to use your design environment for future projects and have a few new themes that you have designed for use on your website. Visit our Web Related Campus to learn more.

*Introduction to Computer Graphics: Starting with GIMP*

This class is all about images that you see, create and use in various ways on your computer. Whether you are retouching photos for the family, creating artwork for the web, or doing fine art professionally, this class will be a good starting point to working with images on the computer. We’ll start out with some very simple exercises and grow from there. By the end of the class, you should be able to create simple images in the GIMP program (and maybe not so simple!) You should also be able to import images into the program. You will also be able to manipulate images to be able to use them in various ways and you’ll know why certain manipulations are needed for various tasks. Along the way, you’ll try out some of the cool things you can do with the GIMP. Visit our Graphic Programs Campus to learn more.

*Corel Painter: PhotoPainting & Portraiture II*

PhotoPainting & Portraiture II covers more landscape painting but introduces painting of animals and birds. You will have the opportunity of painting your very own favorite pooch or kitty, or other favorite animal.

Each week you are given an image as you did in PhotoPainting & Portraiture I and step by step instruction is given on how to transform a photograph into a lovely painterly image. You are then requested to paint your own.

Create your own hairy brush; learn what brushes are great for feather painting and make a nice brush for snow, although I have provided brushes for this. In PhotoPainting & Portraiture II there are some video demonstrations, so look out for that information in the lesson. Visit our Graphics Program Campus to learn more.

*PSE 8 Beyond the Basics: High Seas*

We have Set Sail, we’ve had Clear Sailing, and now I will take you on the High Seas in this third class of the series of courses specifically for Photoshop Elements 8! This class will cover more advanced features of Photoshop Elements 8, such as installing and using layer styles, actions, and third party plug-ins. We will learn to replace a bad sky with a good one, work with patterns, and cover some more advanced photo correction techniques, such as using Camera Raw. We will learn to make a studio portrait from a snapshot, do a bit of digital alchemy and turn silver into gold, and much more! Visit our Graphics Programs Campus to learn more.

Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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A High Quality Education Doesn’t Have To Come At A High Cost

December 8th, 2009 lvs

NEW Courses for January 2010 session: » Creating a Drupal Blog » Dreamweaver Advanced » Flash ActionScript 3.0 » Photography Basics III » Photojournalism & Documentary Photography » Photoshop Elements 8 Basics: Setting Sail

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special AND….if you refer new students to LVS, receive $5 for EACH referral!

Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!

LVS students are eligible for Corel educational version software from the Corel Education Store. This includes CorelDRAW, Corel Painter 11, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, and Corel PhotoImpact X3! Registered LVS students enter CRL10LVS when checking out to get an additional 10% discount on all Corel products! Check out the LVS News page for more information and details on special offers!

As an additional benefit to our enrolled LVS students, special offers are made available by famous software developers such as Auto FX, Andromeda, AV Bros, Harry Heim – The PlugIn Site, namesuppressed, Nik Multimedia, and Ulead. Only registered students receive the information and discounts! Be sure to click on the “Class Information” link provided in your registration confirmation for IMPORTANT class information and special offers!

Registered LVS students are also eligible to purchase some of their favorite software and hardware at a student discount through our Academic Reseller programs.

Instructor-led classes begin January 9, 2010. Head on over to LVS Online Registration to enroll today!

Registration for the January 2010 session ends January 6, 2010.

New Course Highlights

*Creating a Drupal Blog*

Drupal is a free and open source Content Management System written in PHP. With Drupal you can create a simple personal homepage, a company website, a blog, an ecommerce site, etc. Hundreds of modules are available for use with Drupal. You can create slide shows, events calendars, a contact form, product catalogs, polls or surveys, guestbook, a forum or blog, or newsletter signup. The possibilities are endless. Basically, there are no limits with Drupal, you really can make any type of website you want. No programming skills are required!

This online course is designed to take you through the development of your own Drupal web site. We will be doing a personal blog on whatever “G” rated subject that you choose. What is a weblog? A weblog, or “blog”, is a personal journal on the Web. Some modules that can be used for this type of site include a slide show, events calendar, and a guest book. Weblogs cover many different topics. Your blog can be used to share information with relatives and friends. It can include recipes, graduation announcements, birthdays, or vacation pictures. Basically anything that you are interested in can be shared with others on your blog. You can allow others to post comments on your blog. The sky s the limit!!

This class is for anyone that is interested in creating a personal web site or blog. This class will teach you the basics of the Drupal Content Management System.

Visit our Web Development Campus to learn more.

*Dreamweaver Advanced*

This is an advanced course for web designers that want to make the transition from using Dreamweaver to create static web sites to dynamic and interactive data driven web sites It is designed for people who have been creating web sites for a while and wanting to create professional web sites.

This advanced course will utilize Dreamweaver tools to create functioning forms that will control your reader’s experience on your web site. You will learn how to incorporate Javascript, XML,PHP and MySQL functionality into your web sites. We will expand our Spry skills, learned in previous Dreamweaver classes, to manage and display data. Students will work on a team project to learn professional web design workflow, in addition to their individual assignments.

Visit our Web Related Campus to learn more.

*Flash ActionScript 3.0*

Currently ActionScript 3.0 is the internal programming language of Flash, Flex and Adobe AIR. This object oriented language is more adherent to the ECMA-262 standard which many other languages (i.e. JavaScript) follow.

This class gives non-programmers a chance to really understand the benefits of using a programming language in an animation tool like Adobe Flash. Students will learn the basics of the core language of ActionScript 3.0, how it is used within the timeline, interact with objects (movieclips) on the stage and library, develop simple animations with just ActionScript and understand the importance and how to create preloaders for your movies.

This beginner class on ActionScript 3.0 will give you a great foundation for creating (or understanding existing scripts) your own custom scripts.

Visit our Graphic Programs Campus to learn more.

*Photography Basics III*

Photography Basic III HDR (High Dynamic Range) & Panorama Stitching online course will introduce you to the world of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. These images can also be combined into a single panorama image and the first two weeks of this course will concentrate on how to produce a panorama image using standard JPG images. HDR will increase the dynamic range of your images. Many times our exposures will have blown out highlights and look flat and dull. HDR will help you solve this problem and reveal highlight and shadow details you never thought were possible.

Instructor Al Mierau has been an avid photographer for over 50 years. For 15 years he was professionally photographing commercial and residential structures for mortgage, fire insurance, and courtroom evidence. Air Canada, Gardens West Prairie Edition, and Heritage Canada magazines have published his photographs. Some of his work can also be seen at the Menno-Hof museum located in Shipshewana, Indiana.

Visit our Photography Campus to learn more.

*Photojournalism & Documentary Photography*

In this online class students learn the basic techniques to have their work published by newspapers and magazines. Techniques and methods to produce images that are newsworthy with more impact are discussed and demonstrated through assignments. This course covers techniques to get news pictures with impact whether shooting spec shots, environmental portraits, sporting and entertainment events, general news or spot news. Journalism ethics, writing cut lines, and how to sell your work are discussed.

Visit our Photography Campus to learn more.

*Photoshop Elements 8 Basics: Setting Sail*

Photoshop Elements 8 Basics: Setting Sail class is all new for Photoshop Elements, and will cover Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows and Mac. This is the first of a two part course and contains Lessons 1-6. It must be taken before taking the second class, More Photoshop Elements 8 Basics, which contains Lessons 7-12. You will learn the tools and interface, using the Effects palette and how to set preferences to make Elements work your way (as well as how to reset corrupted preferences). You will learn about selections and using Save for Web and much more!

This class does not cover the Organizer. Because of the scope of the Organizer and the fact it is as feature-packed as a separate program, it has its own classes, and is not included in the Mac version of Elements.

Visit our Graphic Programs Campus to learn more.

Check out our complete selection of online classes!

*FREE TUTORIALS*

• Understanding Directories and Paths
• Basic HTML Page
• Dreamweaver Extension Manager
• *Mac* Basic IRCle Tutorial
• Basics of mIRC
• Saving and opening PDF files
• Screen Captures with Photshop CS
• Screen Captures with IrfanView
• How to Set File Permissions
• Text Editors
• Create Thumbnail Images
• Windows XP Compression
• Winzip Tutorial
• WS-FTP Tutorial
• Visit the Free Tutorial Page for more information!

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Registration is Open for the January 2010 Session

December 7th, 2009 lvs

January ’10 Registration is Open
Classrooms open Jan 4, 2010
Registration closes Jan 6, 2010
First lesson posts Jan 9, 2010

New Courses for January session:
» Creating a Drupal Blog
» Flash ActionScript 3.0
» Dreamweaver Advanced
» Photography Basics III
» Photojournalism & Documentary Photography
» Photoshop Elements Basics: Setting Sail

Course Fees:
    $30.00 New Students
    $24.00 Returning Students

Courses are 6 weeks long unless otherwise noted.
Certificates of Completion are available.
**Course start dates**

Give the gift of LVS Online Classes to someone special AND…. receive $5 for each new student referral!

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